Shinji Mikami Joins Bethesda

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:51 am

[ Company -> Update ]

In the Bethesda blog they have announced that they acquired the company that Shinji Mikami works for. If you don't know him then he is the guy who made the Resident Evil series and is usually always outspoken like the time he said he would cut his own head off if RE4 was released on ps2.
Welcome, stranger! Nick here with more extremely exciting news to share. Fresh off <a href="http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/08/1 ... dios/">the announcement</a> that Arkane Studios has joined ZeniMax comes this crazy bulletin: <a href="http://tangogameworks.com/studio/profil ... i/">Shinji Mikami</a>, legendary game developer and creator of the Resident Evil series, has followed suit with his new studio <a href="http://tangogameworks.com/">Tango Gameworks</a>.
Mikami’s credits are long and distinguished. Fans will know him best as the creator and longtime steward of the Resident Evil series, which he founded in 1996. Mikami supervised the franchise until directing his final entry, Resident Evil 4, widely considered to be a masterpiece of game design.
Tango will be working on AAA, multi-platform video games, and Mikami will be acting as creative lead on each project. But don’t take my word for it — check out the release below:
You can read the whole thing <a href="http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/2 ... Spotted @ <a href="http://bethblog.com/">Bethesda Blog</a>

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:21 am

Resident Evil 4 killed the survival horror genre and created the Action Horror genre instead. The Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube was his greatest work, in my opinion. The good thing, now, is that Bethesda fans and weeaboos can now be synonymous.

Stalagmite · Post by **Stalagmite** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:41 am

SenisterDenister wrote:The good thing, now, is that Bethesda fans and weeaboos can now be synonymous.

They practically were before, just that Beth fans had more furries.

Anyway the RE series has gone downhill for many years now (REmake being the only exception) so there's not really need for anger here, just a morbid sort of curiosity.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:07 am

Seems like Zenimax is trying to become like EA, but with the specialty of raping everything I enjoyed in my teen years.

gobbleykins · Post by **gobbleykins** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:20 am

SenisterDenister wrote:Resident Evil 4 killed the survival horror genre and created the Action Horror genre instead. The Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube was his greatest work, in my opinion. The good thing, now, is that Bethesda fans and weeaboos can now be synonymous.

morrowind had katanas and full on furries. pretty sure beth fans were all weaboos already

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:24 am

I don't know if the majority of Bethesda's fans are furries or weabos - though a lot of them are - but I think it's safe to say Todd Howard is.

Stalagmite · Post by **Stalagmite** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:35 am

Could 2 fails combined possibly equal a win?

I mean, watching the decline of Bethesda and the Biohazard series (it's what RE is really and SHOULD be called) maybe licking each others nads may produce some form of offspring worth something?

Not holding any sort of breath just throwing it out there.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:34 pm

SenisterDenister wrote:Resident Evil 4 killed the survival horror genre and created the Action Horror genre instead. The Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube was his greatest work, in my opinion. The good thing, now, is that Bethesda fans and weeaboos can now be synonymous.

I liked them both but I thought RE4 was pretty awesome, it was the most fun I've had with a game in a long time and that was like 5 years ago.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:49 pm

Man directed Godhand. I have no fault with him.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:39 am

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Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:43 pm

I thought that 3 was the best in the series (and by that, I mean from 1, 2, 3).
4 was a massive let-down of course.
I didn't particularly enjoy 1 so much because I played it after having played 2 and found it too technically limiting to be as good as 2.
In fact, I was replaying 2 a few months ago or so but had this issue with game crashing when I was saving which made me rage.

Post by **Manoil** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:19 am

Wolfman Walt wrote:Man directed Godhand. I have no fault with him.

Seriously? Mini power rangers and WWE gorillas? Shit was ridonculous

popscythe · Post by **popscythe** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:41 pm

It figures that Todd Howard (responsible for killing TES) and Shinji Mikami (responsible for killing RE) are playing for the same team now. They should get John Romero to form the triforce of fuck ups and make a kinect game together.

Cakester · Post by **Cakester** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:35 am

wtf. i thought john romero was decent. you fuck head he is on the same youtube channel, with that guy, who interviews game industry people.

Tim Cain, chris avellone, and now i tell you he has John Romero videos.

also does the Romero part make you hungry for pasta